[Box Backup] Run several config-files as one Client

[Benedikt Niessen]

 > Not quite sure why you want to stop the jail though - can't you just
 > have a single bbackupd.conf with a location for each jail and have it
 > backup automatically as usual?

That was my idea. Im just a little confused about the client id thing. 
My idea was to name the server with the id 1 and have a copy for each 
bbackupd.conf jail, bbackupd_$jail.conf as you named it. The only 
difference would be the foldername inside the config.

I have not had a close look or any experience with boxbackup so I dont 
know if this would work. But if it works and BoxBackup is not 
"confused", then sure this is my way to go.

Thanks for your help.

James O'Gorman schrieb:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:06:45PM +0100, Benedikt Niessen wrote:
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  I have several jails/virtual servers running on one machine.
>>
>>  I want to configure BoxBackup to stop the first jail, make a backup, start 
>>  the server again, then stop the next one etc.
>>
>>  I was thinking to make a shell-script which calls the bbackupctl-command 
>>  with a different config-file each but as the same client-id (which belongs 
>>  to the whole machine). Here I could include the different folders for each 
>>  jail/virtual server.
>>
>>  Is that possible or how would you realize this?
> 
> Assuming you mean FreeBSD's jails, and are running a fairly recent
> release, you could probably do something like this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> # Suck in the rc.conf settings
> . /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> source_rc_confs
> 
> # Loop through $jail list, stop each jail, run a sync and start it again
> for jail in $jail_list; do
> 	/etc/rc.d/jail stop $jail
> 	bbackupctl -c /usr/local/etc/box/bbackupd_$jail.conf sync
> 	/etc/rc.d/jail start $jail
> done
> 
> NB: This is totally untested, but should give you the basic idea :-)
> 
> Not quite sure why you want to stop the jail though - can't you just
> have a single bbackupd.conf with a location for each jail and have it
> backup automatically as usual?
> 
> James
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